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P. P. GUILLAUME, Fils Ain.

DRESS SHIELD.

. Patented May 13, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PIERRE PAUL GUILLAUME, FILS ATNE, or PARIS, FRANCE.

DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,985, dated May 13, 1890.

Application filed January 4, 1889. Serial No. 295,463. (No model.) Patented in France November 21, 1888, No. 194,247, and in England November 30, 1888, N0.17,44Z.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatl, PIERRE PAUL GUIL- LAUME, Fils Ain, a citizen of France, residing in Paris, in the French Republic, have i11- vented a new and useful Improvement in Dress-Preservers, (for which I have obtained patents in England, No. 17,442, dated N ovember 30, 1888, and France November 21, 1888, No.194,2l7,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to obviate fixing the d ress-preserver in the dress by pass ing the needle through the water-proof material constituting the inside portion of the dress-prcserver, as the needle is thereby frequentl y broken, in addition to which the material becomes puckered and at the same time the punctures therein lessen the efficacy of the dress-preserver as a protector from perspiration. I therefore provide the preserver with a binding and a part or parts of some soft substancesuch as silk, cotton, or some equivalent materialrunning all round the outer and free edges, and through these parts the sewing to the dress is effected in fixing the article in the position desired. This same band of soft substance can serve to secure the water-proof material in its place inside the outer covering of cloth. Dress-preservers so constructed can be readily fixed or removed and placed in other gari'nents when or if required.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front view of a dress-preserver embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken at the line 1 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modified construction, Fig. 4 being a section on line 3 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side view of another modification. The same letters-of reference indicate like parts in the respective figures.

a is the outer face ofthe dress-preserver, 5 being a thin sheet of impermeable materialsuch as gutta-percha, india-rubber, oil-silk, or such like substanceformin g the inside. Both these are independent, and are simply united by sewinga binding 0 round the edges. \Vhen the dress-preserver is so completed, I attach to this binding 0 a border (Z of some soft substance-such as silk, cotton, or some equivalent material. This border maybe connected to the dress-preserver in any other convenient manner, so long as it is left free for attaching it to the dress or other garment, so that the stitching is effected through this free border of soft material, thus obviating the necessity of passing the needle through the waterproof substance, which would thereby become puckered and punctured, so that the dress-preserver would lose its efficacy as a protection against perspiration. The braid of the border may also be used for fixing the dresspreserver,which braid would then be, as shown by Figs. 8 and 4, composed of the two parts 0 and (Z, united together at f by the weaving and afterward continued to form the border g of less or greater Width. The parts 0 and (Z inclose the edges of the texture a and of the water-proof materialb. Consequently the braid of the border offers every facility for fixing the dress-preserver to the dress, or the border or band (I may be replaced by tongues fixed here and there round the binding 0, Fig. 5.

\Vhat I claim is A dress-shield comprising a sheet Z) of water-proof material, a binding 0 for the edges of the same, and a part or parts having free edges beyond the edges of the shield to en-- able the latter to be secured to the garment by stitching or otherwise without being perforated, substantially as set forth.

PIERRE PAUL GUILLAUME, FILs Aim.

Witnesses:

C. B. LETEN, P. RUBER. 

